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Healthcare delivery, economics and global health
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Spectrum of cardiac disease in maternity in a low-resource cohort in South Africa

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  • Karen Sliwa Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Faculty of Health Sciences, Inter-Cape Heart MRC Unit and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Elena Libhaber Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Catherine Elliott Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Zoe Momberg Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ayesha Osman Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Liesl Zühlke Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Paediatrics, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tony Lachmann Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lauren Nicholson Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Friedrich Thienemann Faculty of Health Sciences, Inter-Cape Heart MRC Unit and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jolien Roos-Hesselink Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • John Anthony Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Karen Sliwa, Department of Medicine, Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7935, South Africa; Karen.Sliwa-Hahnle{at}uct.ac.za
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Sliwa K, Libhaber E, Elliott C, et al
Spectrum of cardiac disease in maternity in a low-resource cohort in South Africa
Heart 2014;100:1967-1974.

Publication history

  • Received May 30, 2014
  • Revised August 8, 2014
  • Accepted August 10, 2014
  • First published September 16, 2014.
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May 30, 2016

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